Dr. Jason Barr Recipient of the latest CTBUH International Research Seed Funding. Barr will use the $20,000 award to investigate the determinants of skyscraper heights and completion rates across 62 Chinese cities from 1978 to 2014.

Join us on November 11, 2015 as Miriam Frank chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers in the 1970s and 1980s.

Out in the Union tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. Miriam Frank chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers in the 1970s and 1980s.

Join us Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 2:30-9PM, for two panels on the ballroom scene in Newark. First will be a youth panel featuring current members of the ballroom scene, and then a historical panel featuring longtime participants who were involved in planning the early FIREBALL shows in Newark in the early 1990s, which were pioneering efforts to fuse HIV/AIDS awareness, community solidarity, and a celebration of queer sexual and gender expression.

Every Single Word is a video series that edits down popular films to only the words spoken by people of color. The result: videos that often have less than a minute of run time. On Thursday, November 12 at 6pm, Mr. Marron will speak on his experience as an actor who has regularly been courted by talent agents and then toldthat there would be ascarcity of work for "his type."

The United States incarcerates more people, and more people of color, than ever in its history. This happened in just in the last few decades – but it has deep roots. Join Liz Ševčenko, founding Director of the Humanities Action Lab at the New School in New York City, to discuss the role of the public humanities in this national crisis.